Sanitary drinking-fountain.



I. P. FARLEY.

SANITARY DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 6, I917.

Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

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JOHN P. FARLEY, OLE KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SANITARY DRINKIN' G-FOU1\TT.AI1\T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

Application filed February 6, 1917. Serial No. 147,014.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN P. FARLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary DrinkingFountains, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sanitary drinking fountains and moreespecially to fountains of that class in which a lever is manipulated topermit water to rise sufficiently from the mouth piece to enable one todrink without touching his lips to the fountain, and in which a springis employed to effect the shutting off of the water when the lever isreleased.

My object is to produce a fountain of the character outlined in whichthe water cannot freeze at any inaccessible point in the fountain andfrom which ice clogging an accessible point can be easily and quicklydislodged.

Another object is to produce a fountain equipped with a drinking troughfor dogs and the like and making provision for charging andautomatically replenishing the trough with waste water from themouthpiece and for draining the overcharge of water from the trough.

A. further object is to provide a fountain having a standpipe forsupplying the mouthpiece with water and means for draining said pipeimmediately after the operating lever is released.

' l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists incertain novel and peculiar features of construction and combinations ofparts as hereinafter described and pointed out in the appended claims,and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, is a perspective view of adrinking fountain embodying my invention.

Fig. 2, is a central vertical section of the upper end of the fountain.

Fig. 3, is a central verticalsection of the lower end of the fountain.

In the said drawing, a vertical pipe comprises a series of pipe sections1 connected together by a pair of T-couplings 2 and 3, the former beinglocated two or three feet below the surface of the ground and thecoupling 3 a few inches above the ground, and the coupling 2 is providedwith a drain pipe 4 leading to the sewer, not shown.

5 is a casing having an enlarged upper end 6 screwed onto the lower endof the endmost section of said pipe, the bore of the casing below theenlarged upper end being of uniform diameter and circular in crosssection. At one side the casing is provided with an intake opening 7 incom? munication with a nipple 8 connected to a water supply pipe 9, andabove opening 7 is a second opening 10 communicating with the bore ofthe casing and with a passage 11 offset from and communicating with thenipple.

The casing is also provided in a plane below that occupied by nipple 8with a laterally projecting nipple 12 communicating with a down-turnedelbow 13 from which a drain pipe 14: extends downward, and saiddrain-pipe as it discharges but a small quantity of water at a time, ispreferably not connected to the sewer.

15 is an upper casing secured to the upper end of the topmost pipesection 1, and upon a casing 16 inclosing the pipe section to a pointjust above the coupling 3. At the lower end of casing 16 is a casing 17having a tubular offset 18 to which is secured in any suitable manner, atrough 19, and a pipe 20 leads from the coupling 3 through said offsetinto said trough for charging the latter with water accessible to a.dogor other small animal. The casing 17 is secured in any suitable mannerto a base 21, which rests upon the ground and provides a finish and abrace against lateral movement of the fountain.

Secured upon the upper end of the upper casing 15, is a catch basin orbowl 22, and secured on the bottom of said catch basin or bowl by themeans of screws which fasten the bowl, is a perforated ring 23 having acentral opening 24 for a purpose which hereinafter appears.

The casing is provided at one side with a vertical slot or opening 25flanked at each side by ears 26, equipped with a pivot bolt 27, andextending through said opening and pivoted to said cars is a lever 28provided with a toothed segment 29 within the casing 15, said segmentbeing enmeshed with a rack bar 30 formed on the side of a short verticalpipe 31, and said pipe normally rests on a perforated cap plate 32fitting on the upper end of the topmost pipe section 1.

A stand pipe 33 extends slidingly through the perforated cap plate andis screwed into the short pipe 31, and to hold said stand pipeyieldingly depressed and with the short pipe 31 bearing on the cap plateand-the latter on said pipe section 1, a'spring 34 surrounds the standpipe and bears at its upper end against said cap plate and at its lowerend on a collar 35fitting on said stand normal position.

pipe and resting on a cross pin 36 extending through said pipe.

' The stand pipe in the plane of the lower side of the trough supplypipe 20, is provided with a collar 37 prevented from upward or downwardmovement on the pipe by cross pins 38 extending through the pipe. Thiscollar 37 acts to check water flowing down through the pipe 1 around thestand pipe 33 sufiiciently to deflect some of such Water laterallythrough the pipe 20 into the trough, but when the water rises in thetrough to the top of pipe 20, it offers sufficient resistance to outwardflow of water through pipe 20, to guard against the overflowing of thetrough and thus compels any additional water to pass downward around thedeflecting collar 37 to the enlarged or upper end of casing 5, and whenthe water rises fromsaid enlarged end of the casing to the level of thedrain pipe 4, it flows out through said drain pipe, provision being madeto prevent the water passing downward through the bore of easing 5, ashereinafter explained, and in this connection attention is directed tothe fact that as the drain pipe 4 is buried in the ground below thefrost line, water which may stand in the enlarged end of the casing 5and lower portion of'pipe 1 and coupling 2, cannot freeze;

39 is a short vertical pipe of small'dia1neter arranged'centrally incasing 5 and provided with an enlarged upper end 40 secured to the lowerend of pipe 33 and secured to and depending from pipe 39 is a cap 41provided with lateral perforations 42. An upwardly facing cup washer 43constitutes a water-tight partition between the perforated cap 41 andthe wall of casing 5 and is secured'rigidly to the lower end of said capby a clamping plate 44 and a screw bolt 45, it being noted that the cupwasher is: of considerabl larger diameter than the cap so that waterpassing from the stand pipe through pipe 39 into the cap may readilyescape through the perforations 42 and thence pass through the tubularnipple 12 and elbow 13 whenthe parts occupy their Fitting" upon pipe 39above the cap41 is a sleeve46, and clamped between said cap and:sl.eeve;. around. the V pipe 39.. is an .up-

wardly facing cup washer 47, the same normally closing the opening 7connected to the supply nipple 8. Fit-ting around the pipe 39 andclamped between the sleeve 46 and the enlarged upper end of pipe 39 isan inverted or downwardly facing cup washer 48 located above the planeof opening 10 so that water from the supply pipe may normally standunder pressure within the casing around the sleeve 46 and maintain thecup washers 47 and 48 expanded and therefore in watertight relation withthe bore of easing 5, so that water cannot pass upward from the supplypipe into the pipe 1. The cup washer 48 constitutes merely a water-tightpartition, and the cup-washers 43 and 47 constitute a piston valve whichin its normal or closed position, as shown, prevents water from thesupply pipe entering, the standpipe, and which when open, as hereinafterappears, permits water to enter the stand pipe but prevents it fromescaping through the nipple 12. l

Within casing 15 is a valve casing 49 secured at itslower end to theupper end of the short pipe 31, the lower end of the passage of saidvalve casing being angular as at 50 for a purpose which hereinafterappears- The upper end of the valve casing is screwed into the lower endof a vertical mouth-piece tube 51, provided at its upper end with ,adished perforated cap 52, from which the water bubbles upward when thefountain is in operation, so as to be accessible to a person desiring adrink, and the mouth-piece tube fits-slidingly in the opening 24 of theperforated plate 23. The upper end of the valve casing 49 constitutes avalve seat 53 for a valve 54. The stem 55 of the valve extends downthrough the valve casing 49, and screwed thereon is a nut 56 incapableof rotation within the angular bore or passage 50 but capable of slidingupward and downward therein, and fitting around the valvestem andbearing at its upper end against the valve casing and at its lower endon said nut, is a spring 57 for holding the valve 54 seated with apressure somewhat less than the pressure of the water in the-supplypipe, so that when the lever 28 is pressed downward to raise thestand-pipe and thereby open the'piston valve at the lower end of saidstand pipe,

through the perforations L2 and rise through the stand-pipe to eflectthe unseating of the valve 54 as explained. In this operation, theresistance of spring 34 is overcome so that said spring being placedunder tension shall immediately eifect the re-lowering of the stand-pipeand the reelevation of the lever, when the overcoming pressure upon thelatter is relaxed. Water overflowing from the mouthpiece cascades orflows down into the catch basin or bowl 24 and passes through theperforated plate 23 into the casing 15 and from the latter through theperforated cap plate 32 into pipe 1. As it passes down through said pipeit is checked sufiioiently by deflecting collar 37 to charge the troughas hereinbefore explained and the excess water continues to the bottomof the pipe 1 and all of it except that standin below the plane of drainpipe 4 passes of? through the latter to the sewer, as hereinbeforeexplained, it being noted that the pressure of water against theunderside of cup washer 4:8 guards against any chance of such waterpassing up through pipe 1, and of course the water standing in pipe 1from escaping from the latter except by way of drain pipe 4.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced asanitary drinking fountain which embodies the features of advantageenumerated in the state ment of the object of the invention and whichobviously may be modified in minor particulars without departing fromthe spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A sanitary drinking fountain, comprising a pipe having a laterallyprojecting drain pipe and a laterally proj eoting trough supply pipe,the latter at a higher point than the former, a trough communicatingwith the trough supply pipeand arranged with its upper edge above saidpipe, a catch basin communicating with the upper and a casingcommunicating with the lower end of the first-named pipe, the casinghaving a water supply opening and a drain opening at diiferent heights,an endwise movable stand pipe within the first-named pipe, a pistonvalve movable with said stand pipe and provided with a passagecommunicating with the stand pipe and with an opening for the ingressand egress of water to and from said passage and stand pipe, said valvenormally closing the said water supply opening of said casing anduncovering the drain opening thereof, means closing communicationbetween the first-named pipe and said casing at a point above the watersupply pipe opening of the latter, a mouth piece for the stand pipe fromwhich water shall overflow into said catch basin, means to move thestand pipe until the said valve uncovers the water supply opening andcovers the drain opening of said casing and means for deflecting waterflowing down through the first-named pipe around the stand pipe, throughsaid trough supply pipe until the trough is fully charged.

2. A sanitary drinking fountain, comprising a pipe having a laterallyprojecting drain pipe and a laterally projecting trough supply pipe, thelatter at a higher point than the former, a trough communicating withthe trough supply pipe and arranged with its upper edge above said pipe,a catch basin communicating with the upper end and a casingcommunicating with the lower end of the first-named pipe, the casinghaving a water supply opening and a drain opening at different heights,an endwise movable stand pipe within the first-named pipe, a pistonvalve movable with said stand pipe and provided with a passagecommunicating with the stand pipe and with an opening for the ingressand egress of water to and from said passage and stand pipe, said valvenormally closing the said water sup ply opening of said casing anduncovering the drain opening thereof, means closing communicationbetween the first-named pipe and said casing at a point above the watersupply pipe opening of the latter, a mouthpiece for the stand pipe fromwhich water shall overflow into said catch basin, and a platesurrounding and movable with the stand pipe and adapted for deflectingwater flowing down the first-named pipe around the stand pipe, into saidtrough through the said trough supply pipe.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN P. FARLEY.

Vitnesses:

C. M. ENSMINGER, G. Y. THORPE.

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Washington, D. G.

